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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917,
SHIPPING
P. & O. S. N. CO.
ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT ΤΟ
MARSEILLES AND
THE CHINA MAIL
THE RETURN TO ENGLAND. Every cast has been seriously wounded
PRISONERS NO MORE.
By Ince. Josks
or dangerously ill. Some bad to be helped from the little funian train,
VISITORS AT THE HOTELS.
HONGKONG HOTEL,
| carried on stretchers and lifted to bod,
Nearly all were wouring flags and flowers Mr G. AndersonMr and Mrs M. R. given to them as they passed theragh Miss A. U. Anderson de Journal w Switzerlandy and whom euch carriage | Mr Gen. S ArchbuttAfiss G. da Journal brat hearty a cheer as the little crowd Mr J cut arrived in the station it was greeter H. furrays. De 8. T. Boyt
Mixa E. do Journel E of English, French and Swiss could set
I am sitting on a hillside overlooking Marren-the little Swiss village porched, on a ledgy ofrock a mile above ser level, † up. whore, for over a year, about 600 British soliliar tavs been interned. In a few health of these men, in the year that has I can see a great difference in the LONDON,ays 930 of them, and hundreds more passed since I then arrive. In the from all over Switzerland, will be home clear mountain air, so free from all germs again. Upposito me, miles of snow open wounds bays healed, sick men have mountains flash in the brilliantannshine. become well, and nerves atrained in the It took the soldiers quite a long time to awful experiences of war and prison nd oat that they could not throw save regained their old tons. They will store scross the yawning chasm of the very different men when they arrive Liuterbrunnen valley, so clear is the air, in London,
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Not that it has been all beer and skittles in Switzerland. They have atil Grasshoppers are ziging furiously in been prisoners, and howarar beautiful the pestasy of a cloudless day ; and from, Murren may be for a week in summer or the slopes abote enuses the mellow music : a month of skiing and skating in winter of cowbells. The village below is transit is very crumped for a prolonged stay. forinel by Dumerous signposta erected Nor does a tiny williger goedholkig kena by the interred soldiers. Every lane a narrow mountain lodge perpendibal Vias E. Mr. Clifford Mr J. Mereok dod footpath bears some familiar name.
name, ly above avalley thousands of feet below, The
chief street in Weatbourne-grove, with on one decently laral path. Me D. C. G. ChifurdMr A. B. Moulder Outside one of the shops I notice pri provide much variety of work or recrear P. R. Plankets-Mr J. & Nicolson vaic mikily flirting with a pleasant-faced tion once the novelty has worn off. When Cole
Mrs, J. R Denra and enckoo clocks in Edgware-road." the ter paths all but impassablent is po Swiss girl, who sells little wooden chalets the slush of spring and autumn render Not
far away
at a place where three Elysium for sick and wounded men, com- mountain paths meet, a Scotumas, afortable though the hotels may be.. Canadian, and one of the L. R.. B. are standing talking by a post bearing the names Piccadilly," "Park-lane," and
Love-lane."
FULL OF MEMORIES,
But the place will be full of memories
for those who will never ses it again. Here some bare courted and married;
Out to the left is "the Oral formerly few have died. There have been great the skating rink of the Hotel cos Alpes)) debates in the Y.M,QA. hat; ; On a
a matting, wicket, a cricket match on the des Alpes football between the men of the Eiger and have been held at which, Alpemuche Hotels has just finished and ladies
the grasshoppers and the spells drown matchanism at Vevey; some are doing
cowbells
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Mr F. W. Collins
Oldman M. J. J. Connell Chot. and Mrs L. Mr.J.D. Courtney
D'Olivero
Mr and Mrs. E.-8. Misri E. Fenciális
and infant Mr. P. (2 Patta W. B. Mr. H.
Mr Mad Deveport Ma
Flicho
Mrs J.M. Forbes Me P. D. G. Gain MM. Grujcie
and Mrs Gilman Goulbourn
Mrs J. Gould Capt. T. P. Hall Mr and Mrs W. A.
Hannibal
Mr J. Gordon Hare Mr G. Harper Mr D. Haskell Mr D. S. Hewitt Mrs A. E. Hodrins Mr and Mrs Paul
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Mr G. Y. Sisch Mr H M. Richards Mr W. J. Robbins Capt. A. Retinson Mrs M. S. da Rocks Mr F. Servarin Mr. and Mrs W. C.
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Mr and Mrs A. M.
Solomon Mr.WP.Spiers 311 J. Stalker Mr A.
Star
van der
Mr C. P Templeton Mr F. G. Thompson Mr E. Hoffman Mrs Thunder Mr. B.Hoogewaalf M: F. Vacher Mr. Shekon Hoog Mr J. J. Waters Mr L. Hope MrD'Aree Weatherbe Capt. and Mr R. Capt. H. Westers
Inne
Mr. H. W. Warmouth Mr and Mis Ea J.
Wilkinson Mr G. G. Wood
in a few minutes khaki forms will be the Valadier has partnered goldier
has been stepped through swarming up Piccadilly to see the with due solemnity. The Temperance fizul of the Murran Cup- Marren is Club has made rambles over the hills, great at football. After all it is the only picnicked down in the Lutschine valley. game for the soldier; and, though cricket There has been a general election at and bookay are played in the morning, it which I forget who won; but I know is at four o'clock that hundreds of men the whole place was gaudy with red and turn out to watch the cup ties, and bine. Some men bave left to learn hotal lengua matches; and cries of "Lovely management at Interlaken, or motor milway work near Lugano, and others. Just above the YMCA-hut, that in-felling trees naar Lahabus. Every valuable building erected last June, two has been done by Swiss and British or three men are inspecting their patate to make imprisonment for after all in- patch, and wondering whether the ternment is only another form of impri potatoes can be dug before they leave. sonment a brable sa possible but
have no doubt that inside the hut home is and never so dear as when reach-Miss F. Jacobwers several are writing home in a few ed at lagt aftor war-prison sickness, Mr J.-W. Johnston- days, perhaps before this letter reaches wounds, fupine, and years of exile. ** Mr. E. M. Joseph you, I shall be home again":
"; for in a fow days they will pass for the last time the
I wonder what they will find in Eng- cheerful post by the little station board Two remarks made to me by ing the notice: "To Bighty."
The Commission to decide who should internes impressed me very much.
Ona go and who must stay was held more had gone straight out to France without was made by an Australian officer who
badly wounded been chosen. Oh! the wounded, lost a leg was taken prisoner Mrs T. Adams than a fortnight age. Only those most
to England at all. He was or who have been seri ecming DuBly excitement of the days before the Comby the Germans, and finally transferred. Me D. K. Blair
Iam very carious," said he, to see Mr and Mrs, O. reission! Dozens
speculative" lists were made. feu apparently well found what sort of people the English at home themselves doubtful about their really are, and how they will trest one."
Miss V. Martin. very health and in the and many who
The other remark a much more Mr and Mrs H. A.Miss Martin. thought they Reald stay found them pathetic. It was made by a soldier who selves passed, and soms he hoped to go people in Thyed feel that it was dir-fr and Mrs F. 8. L.Mr sad Mrs G. F. Cartwright Capt. & Mrs Vieris: hed Foet an arm and an eye Do the Mr & MraF. W. Cary de Mathos hare to stay. But it is all settled now. , THẬT FIRST EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
grace for us have bad taken prison ars 1 besakan Whi da they think Some of these men left England over of us who w three rear ago in that first Expeditionary I hope the Force of fadeiras memory; and after hope the people of England will Elmore few days of Bahting in August, 1914, were show them what they think by giving Mr F. W. Evans
them such a reception as they will never Mr S. Evans wounded and taken prisoners. spent two years in German prison expe, forget, and one of which they can write subjected to all kinds of neglect and il treatment; and a little over a year ago
of
a
were transferred to Switzerland and interned there.
I happened to be in Murrun when the first batch strived from Germany
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Hale
Mr. Jvari Rees
Mr and Mrs WE
Roberts
Miss Skinner
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Smith
To them should be offered that heartfelt Mr and H E B. Mr & Mrs V, Findlay welcome reserved for those who have Harling & child. Smith done their part; and after long exile Krand Mrs J. C. Major Gen. Ventris enter into their own."7"
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